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How to use ETER to identify similar institutions

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are said to be “as different as chalk and cheese”, and indeed, by looking at ETER data, such differences are highly apparent. In terms of students, the largest HEI in ETER, the Anadolu University in Turkey,…

Atypical combinations of technologies in regional co-inventor networks

RISIS Research Seminar June 12 2024 @ 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Presenter: Balázs Lengyel Discussant: tba Abstract Novel combinations of technologies are usually the result of collaborative work that builds on existing knowledge. Albeit inventors and their respective communities…

The European Higher Education Sector Observatory

We are delighted to announce that a consortium, which comprises the primary partners of the ETER project, has secured a prestigious opportunity to develop a European Higher Education Sector Observatory. The European Higher Education Sector Observatory, a key action stemming from…

RISIS Research Seminars 2024: Call for Participation

We are now opening the call for participations for the 2024 series of RISIS research seminars (). RISIS research seminars are meant to discuss on-going scholarly research in research and higher education in order also to prepare future publications; papers…

New indicators on mature students included in ETER

ETER now includes essential indicators shedding light on the participation of adult learners in higher education. Specifically, we have included indicators that measure the share of mature students, providing valuable insights into their engagement in tertiary education. Mature students and…

Policy Brief: The European University Initiative from the perspective of data and indicators

The European Tertiary Education Register (ETER) has established itself as the reference point for any analysis of higher education based on microdata, that is, on data related to individual institutions. ETER covers both university (PhD granting) and non-university institutions (e.g. Fachochschule)…

New ETER Country Reports available

ETER Country Reports describe the structure of the respective national higher education system, focusing on the institutional types as defined by national categories. They build on the Eurydice report on the national higher education system but complements it with quantitative…

ETER country reports available

ETER country reports describe the structure of the respective national higher education system, focusing on the institutional types as defined by national categories. They build on the Eurydice report on the national higher education system but complements it with quantitative…

New ETER data available

The European Tertiary Education Register (ETER) data for 2017, 2018 and 2019 are now available online. With this release, ETER now provides longitudinal data for the period 2011-2019; this allows examining changes over time in European higher education. The ETER…

Quality Assurance Indicators

In its new data release, ETER is extending its long-standing cooperation with the Database of External Quality Assurance Results (DEQAR) (). DEQAR is a large database, which provides access to reports and evaluation results published byEQAR-registered quality assurance agencies, which have…